Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Because you could obviously put one of these on your bookshelf… I have a few baseball-themed drinking containers on my shelves, but this cup will not be among them. (The belt is a nice touch.) It goes for $75 at Dodger Stadium but I took this picture from eBay, where it’s listed for $239 plus […]
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And the wrap-up… * denotes items of particular interest (to me, at any rate). Odds and Ends ** It will be interesting to see how The Hidden Game of Baseball: A Revolutionary Approach to Baseball and Its Statistics has held up since it was first published 30 years ago. Authors John Thorn and Pete Palmer […]
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From NPR, this item about those stupid bets politicians make on their teams at World Series time.
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As mentioned yesterday: As an unrepentant skeptic, I was wondering if the “powers that be” consulted the managers of the Rays and Phillies, urging them not to steal any bases. I’ll be interested to see if there’s a report on how many of these digestive bombs were doled out.
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In a former life, I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted an award-winning bog about Jews and Sports.
I did a profile piece on the legendary cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was very generous in immortalizing me in this caricature.
My article on Sandy Koufax in the 1965 World Series appears in
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
My article on the Mets’ 1969 postseason appears in
Profiles of several Jewish baseball figures appear in
